AWS DevOps Engineer

Job Title : AWS DevOps Engineer

Location: Scottsdale, Arizona
Work Arrangement: Onsite
Interview: In-person interview is mandatory
Employment Type: Long Term Contract
Exp. needed: 5-8 years

Important Requirement

This is a fully onsite position in Scottsdale, Arizona. Candidates must be willing and able to work onsite. An in-person interview is mandatory.

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced AWS DevOps Engineer to join our team in Scottsdale, Arizona. The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on experience with AWS, GitHub, GitHub Actions, and GitHub Runners , with a proven ability to build, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines and cloud infrastructure.

The candidate should also have experience working with AWS database and streaming services, particularly Amazon Aurora, DynamoDB, and Kinesis . This role requires someone who is comfortable working closely with development and infrastructure teams to automate deployments, improve reliability, and troubleshoot production environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions .
• Manage and maintain GitHub repositories, workflows, permissions, branching strategies, and integrations .
• Configure, manage, and troubleshoot GitHub-hosted and self-hosted runners .
• Build and maintain scalable and secure DevOps infrastructure within AWS .
• Automate application builds, testing, deployments, and infrastructure provisioning.
• Integrate GitHub Actions with AWS services and implement secure authentication mechanisms such as AWS IAM and GitHub OIDC .
• Develop reusable GitHub Actions workflows and improve pipeline performance and reliability.
• Monitor CI/CD pipelines and troubleshoot failed builds, deployments, and infrastructure issues.
• Work with Amazon Aurora for deployment, configuration, monitoring, performance, and operational support.
• Support applications using Amazon DynamoDB , including configuration, monitoring, scaling, and troubleshooting.
• Work with Amazon Kinesis for streaming data workloads and troubleshoot data ingestion/processing issues.
• Implement infrastructure automation using Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar Infrastructure-as-Code tools .
• Implement AWS monitoring, logging, alerting, and operational best practices using services such as CloudWatch .
• Apply security best practices across AWS infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines.
• Collaborate with developers, QA engineers, architects, and other infrastructure teams.
• Participate in incident troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and production support.
• Continuously improve deployment automation, system reliability, scalability, and operational efficiency.

Required Skills

• Strong hands-on experience with GitHub .
• Strong experience with GitHub Actions .
• Hands-on experience configuring and managing GitHub Runners .
• Experience with self-hosted GitHub Actions runners is highly preferred.
• Strong understanding of GitHub Actions workflow YAML.
• Experience with CI/CD pipeline design, implementation, and troubleshooting.
• Experience with Git branching, pull requests, code reviews, and repository management.
• Experience integrating GitHub Actions with AWS.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS services, including:
• AWS Data Services - Must Have Amazon Aurora, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Kinesis
• Experience with Terraform and/or CloudFormation .
• Strong scripting skills using Shell/Bash and/or Python .
• Experience automating infrastructure and operational processes.
• Experience with Docker and containerized applications is a plus.
• Kubernetes/EKS experience is a plus.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, Cloud Engineering, or related infrastructure roles.
• AWS certification such as AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional is a plus.
• Experience working in enterprise-scale AWS environments.
• Experience implementing secure CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and AWS.
• Experience with ephemeral or scalable self-hosted GitHub runners is a strong plus. AWS specifically documents scalable and ephemeral approaches for GitHub Actions runners on AWS.